winter riding 🙁 last nights ride added on a further 30-45 minutes to the ride due to boggy mess and muddy paths etc 🙁 a further 30 mins cleaning up various parts of the bike and clothes/legs/arms/face etc 🙁
i miss summer already 🙁
on the plus side we experienced our lights for the first to full effect in the woods in pure darkness - definitely creepy for the first time!
Haven't missed 'summer' here. Autumn is my best season for riding, crisp colour changes and cool autumn morning rides.
Malverns last night were warm and dry. Perfect night riding conditions. Bikes were dusty 🙂 Love riding in Autumn and Spring. Winter? Not so much 😉
What is this 'summer' of which you speak?
Autumn is my favourite time for evening/night rides. You get the best sunsets. Its not stopped raining for a week here now though. I have absolutely zero motivation to get the bike out
Yes it rains and things get wet and soil can turn to mud. I'm sorry if this is new to you.
its not new to me drac, calm down 😉 - i LIKE it in the winter, its something totally different and you get used to it, it would never stop me riding...
im just merely stating i dont want summer to be over - and now it pretty much is for me, cant see the same dry dusty trails being there now until frosty winter or next summer 🙁
On the plus side you get to break out the night lights and the trails that you have been riding all summer are very different once again. 😀
indeed james, that was my plus side last night, watching my lights dazzle oncoming traffic and totally illuminate a creepy woods.....and it was a totally different ride, really was.....loads of shitty bramble scratches, wet lethal roots, and sliding mud! was fun all the same, only downside really is the cleaning bit, and the fact it adds more time to the ride due to the clag
Still holding up pretty well in my neck of the woods.
The Wyre forest has been riding brilliantly for months now which is almost unheard of. Last Wednesday it was still sketchy in places due to the dustiness of the trails.
I shall look back fondly once it make the transition soon into its usual Somme-Like muddyness for the winter months....